Medical supply companies must pay $1.9 million for Medicare fraud

11:48 AM,
Jan. 23, 2014

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The two medical supply companies in Louisville were shams, billing Medicare for providing equipment that was never delivered to patients in Florida - some of whom were deceased.

Now the owners of the two defunct companies will pay the price for a scheme in which they submitted about $4 million in fraudulent claims.

Yunior Lopez, 36, of Miami and Arturo Esquivel, 42, of Hialeah, Fla., were sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge John G. Heyburn II to to 4½ years each in prison and ordered to pay $1,940,043 in restitution. ...